K&C "Broken Square" Display (3 Viewers)

Great set of figures, great display. Scenes like this make one want to start or add to a collection for sure. Great marketing.:D
 
I heard from Capitolron yesterday by email and he is down in New Orleans at the Jazz Fest there. The life of a lobbyist sounds tough to me.

He did say he liked the French Cavalry smashing the Highlanders in this display. I guess I will have to change it now. I don't let our French brothers win in any dios at this house. ;)
 
mk26gmls said:
I heard from Capitolron yesterday by email and he is down in New Orleans at the Jazz Fest there. The life of a lobbyist sounds tough to me.

He did say he liked the French Cavalry smashing the Highlanders in this display. I guess I will have to change it now. I don't let our French brothers win in any dios at this house. ;)
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:D

Rob
 
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FOR KING AND COUNTRY




WELLINGTON
 
mk26gmls said:
I heard from Capitolron yesterday by email and he is down in New Orleans at the Jazz Fest there. The life of a lobbyist sounds tough to me.

He did say he liked the French Cavalry smashing the Highlanders in this display. I guess I will have to change it now. I don't let our French brothers win in any dios at this house. ;)
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What you could do is to have the Highlanders in the process of closing the square and trapping some of the French inside whilst beating off the rest with good old volley fire! Much better imho..:D

A very nice display you have btw.

Jeff
 
A Broken Square is a broken square - :D

VIVE L'EMPERUER ! NAPOLEON !!


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And a broken Empire is a broken Empire...and a short man will always be a short man.......:)




WELLINGTON


....:)
 
Wellington

There is a reason why they call it the NAPOELONIC PERIOD !

....not the british got lucky in the end period. :D ;)

Long Live The Republic !

NAPOLEON !
 
:)They called it the Napleonic period because the world felt sorry for a man with NO future.


FOR KING AND COUNTRY

WELLINGTON.................:)
 
One thing I don't like about using this landscaping on all of my displays comes to when I take pictures. Though you can't see it in this display or any others I have posted, I have the ground grass really rough. Divets and ridges in the grass. When you see it in my study, it has a cool, old ground cover look. When a picture is taken, the grass appears that it has just be cut even and smooth by my Briggs and Stratton mower.
 
I amnot sure what thread it was on, but this is a reasonable one on which to reply. There was a discussion comparing Wellington to Napoleon. It was stated that Napoleon cared more for hos men because he allowed them to rise up the ranks whereas Wellington was a bit of a hidebound aristocrat. There may be some truth in that. However Wellington was notoroulsy careful of his men. He insisted on them lying down below an elevation so as not to be exposed to too much canon fires. He did not waste their lives carelessley. Napoleomn did not really spare his men. On seeing the Borodino battlefield he said " That is nothing One Paris night will replace them"

Wellington once came across an officer being carried across a stream by two of his men. Wellington immediately saluted, forcing the two soldiers to salute and drop the office bottom first in the cold stream. Wellington aslo said there is no such thing as a bad soldier only a poor offiicer. His talk about scum of the earth was referring to the army he had at Waterloo. His elite force that had won in Spain had been dismembered and many had been sent to America where there were still tensions. His force to face Napoloen at Waterloo was a makeshift one of young soldiers and uncertain allies.
 
damian said:
I amnot sure what thread it was on, but this is a reasonable one on which to reply. There was a discussion comparing Wellington to Napoleon. It was stated that Napoleon cared more for hos men because he allowed them to rise up the ranks whereas Wellington was a bit of a hidebound aristocrat. There may be some truth in that. However Wellington was notoroulsy careful of his men. He insisted on them lying down below an elevation so as not to be exposed to too much canon fires. He did not waste their lives carelessley. Napoleomn did not really spare his men. On seeing the Borodino battlefield he said " That is nothing One Paris night will replace them"

Wellington once came across an officer being carried across a stream by two of his men. Wellington immediately saluted, forcing the two soldiers to salute and drop the office bottom first in the cold stream. Wellington aslo said there is no such thing as a bad soldier only a poor offiicer. His talk about scum of the earth was referring to the army he had at Waterloo. His elite force that had won in Spain had been dismembered and many had been sent to America where there were still tensions. His force to face Napoloen at Waterloo was a makeshift one of young soldiers and uncertain allies.
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Napoleon had full automny over practically every aspect of his army, he was Head of State, whereas Wellington was no more than a soldier servant of the British Government.
Now couple that with France's population at the time of somewhere in the region of 26m and Britain's no more than 9m and I believe that would make a general like Wellington very economical with his soldiers lives whereas using your Napoleon "One Paris night" quote the opposite could be said about Bonaparte reinforced by the thousands of his soldiers lives he sacrificed in his two excursions outside of Europe (Egypt and Russia).
Reb
 
Beautiful display!
However the British square was never "broken".
At Quatre Bras the 92nd Highlanders were caught unformed....
At Waterloo the Inniskillen fusiliers (Ulster) were found all dead, but still laying in a square.
 
pwalms said:
Beautiful display!
However the British square was never "broken".
At Quatre Bras the 92nd Highlanders were caught unformed....
At Waterloo the Inniskillen fusiliers (Ulster) were found all dead, but still laying in a square.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!

British Revisionist History ;)


VIVE LA NAPOLEON !!!!
 
pwalms said:
Beautiful display!
However the British square was never "broken".
At Quatre Bras the 92nd Highlanders were caught unformed....
At Waterloo the Inniskillen fusiliers (Ulster) were found all dead, but still laying in a square.
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Sorry Pwalms, maybe the froggies never broke a British Square, but the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" (Hadendowa Beja Warriors in the service of the Mahdi) did it at a little place called Tamai. Read your Kipling!:D
 
Guys,

You should all know that the display that I assembled with the French winning is obviously fictional. :D
 
Louis Badolato said:
Sorry Pwalms, maybe the froggies never broke a British Square, but the "Fuzzy Wuzzies" (Hadendowa Beja Warriors in the service of the Mahdi) did it at a little place called Tamai. Read your Kipling!:D
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Hi Louis,

Anyone who wants to know more about "Fuzzy Wuzzies" and how they "Broke The Square" could do a lot worse that pick up the excellent book below. I finished it in one go during my recent flights from the UK to Hong Kong.

Cheers
H

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